Some of the true crimes that I expect SVU to rip off this season:
- The Hart family in Oregon: a Caucasian lesbian couple adopt half a dozen African American children and after years of dodging abuse allegations reported to CPS by various people, they load all the kids up into the family minivan and drive off a cliff, killing everyone inside (one body hasn't been found yet)
- Chris/Shanann Watts in Colorado: a good-looking, upper middle class couple live in a $400,000 cookie cutter home in a nice neighborhood. He works for an oil company, she sells Thrive (an MLM thing). When she (5 months pregnant) goes missing with the the couples 2 little girls, their bodies are later discovered at one of his former worksites-she's in a shallow grave, the 3 and 4 year olds have been dumped into oil tanks. He's arrested for all 4 murders (including the fetus's death in a roundabout way), but he claims that he killed her ONLY after he caught her killing their girls via a baby monitor. He's currently in jail.
- Mollie Hibbets in Iowa: pretty college co-ed goes for an evening job in small-town Iowa. When she goes missing, everyone in her life is suspected. Later, an illegal immigrant is arrested for her murder. He claims that he saw her, followed her, tried talking to her but when she turned him down and said that she'd call the police, he "blacked out" and awoke later to find that her dead body was in his trunk. He dumped her body in a cornfield and claims that he remembers nothing about the crime.
- The Delphi, Indiana murders: 13 and 14 year old Abby and Libby go for a hike in a popular park in their small town. When they don't meet their ride, a search ensues. They're dead bodies are found the next day. Although a brief video of the perp was caught by Libby and uploaded to her phone, there are no POIs. We don't have a cause of death and leaks about the case have been abnormally quiet. (My cousin is LE in Delphi and he was assigned to the case in the beginning.)
So these are some of the ones that I expect to see in some form or another, especially since they are high-profile at the moment. The Mollie Tibbets one, especially, seems likely.
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